Radical presence: beyond pernicious identity politics and racialism.

The burden of forgetting will worry their hearts. (Rytcheu 1997, 242)

In the past I have used such words as "recovery of indigenous mind," "nurturing conversation," "participatory or shamanic concourse," and "decolonization" to point to a particular consciousness practice or way of being present in the world or form of inquiry (Kremer 1997b). (1) These terms point to a radical way of overcoming persistent identity politics and racialism caused by historical wounds, supremacist thinking, collective amnesia, and the ensuing shadow material. For myself, these processes im